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The Old Silk Mill
Derby
DE1 3AF
Average Rating: 
Reopened and refurbished last year to good effect. It's just across the road from Ye Olde Dolphin. There’s a huge mural on the outside which is difficult to miss. It has a fine old stone exterior along with some black and white timberwork. Once inside there are two rooms both with good fireplaces and nicely decorated with red settles and old photos of the pub around the walls. There’s a decent bit of tiling to the rear near the toilets and the room to the right of the door has parquet flooring. There are 8 handpumps, all being used when we visited, plus Bass served from the jug. The John Loombe bar is now open at the back of the pub which had 4 more beers stillaged behind it. I had a pint of Hip Hop from the Blackwater brewery which was very good. They don’t do food but they will let you bring your own in and will also supply plates and cutlery. Add it to your ale trail in Derby.
Reviewed by ROB Camra on 12th February 2010 -
[User has posted 58 recommendations]
This detached brick build has a mock Tudor facade, the lower half in stone and the upper in timber, that hide its much later origins. There is a coloured mural on the side.
The interior has two rooms (Offilers Lounge) and the bar, and is in white and wood panel, with marble fireplace. Whilst the walls are a little bare, there are still a number of old photographs of the pub and Derby, as well as some prints. There is a lot of tiling in the corridors and there is a central wood bar, with good service, though it was quiet when we visited. Music was easy listening and at a decent level.
Beer; tap stuff, with 8 handpulls. The Brentwood Hope & Glory was excellent, the Cairngorm Stout fine.
Yet another joy to visit. A great pub.
Reviewed by Soup Dragon on 27th November 2009 - no rating submitted
[User has posted 865 recommendations]
Prominently sited pub, with a mixed modern, 1930s and older interior. Eight handpumps serving well kept beers from microbreweries countrywide, plus the usual suspects in the keg line. Comfortable interior with a main room containing the bar counter, a smaller snug like room to one end called the Offilers Lounge and a function room towards the rear. There are some nice 1930s tiles in a service corridor running behind the bar, tiled floors and a pretty victorian fireplace. Quiet on my visit with a few older gents in the Offilers. Offilers is the name of a defunct Derby brewery which closed in 1966 but I don't know if this was one of their tied houses.
Reviewed by Old Boots on 21st November 2009 - no rating submitted
[User has posted 395 recommendations]
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